DAY 1 (16 May 2014, Friday)

09:00 – Breakfast

09:30 – Introduction

10:00-12:00 – Panel 1: Soft Power, Brutal Force and the Significance of Words

• Patryk Babiracki (University of Texas-Arlington, USA). Soviet Soft Power and Eastern Europe, 1945-1956.

• Natalia Skradol (University of Sheffield, UK). Socialist Realism in the Soviet Zone: Concept and Practice.

• Ivana Peruško (University of Zagreb, Croatia). Croatian ‘No’ to Socialist Realism: From Miroslav Krleža's ‘Dialectical Antibarbarus’ to ‘On Cultural Freedom’.

• Plamen Doinov (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria). Writers’ Self-Criticism: The Soviet Model and the Bulgarian Experience, 1946–1962.

 

12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch

 

13:30-15:30 – Panel 2: World Literature in the Eastern Bloc

• Katerina Clark (Yale University, USA). ‘World Literature’: Standard Bearer of Soviet Culture in the 1930s and Casualty in the 1940s.

• Vladislav Zubok (London School of Economics, UK). A Broken Trumpet: Soviet Propaganda of "Russian Culture" in Eastern Europe.  

• Rossen Djagalov (Koç University, Turkey). Literary Polpredy and the Constitution of ‘The Literature of People’s Democracies’.

• Tatiana Volokitina (The Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia). Writers and Political Regimes in Eastern Europe (Based on Materials in Russian Archives).

 

15:30-16:00 – Break

16:00-18:00 – Keynote

• Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary, University of London, UK). The Post-Romantic Syndrome: Intellectual Adventures in Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989.

 

19:00 – Dinner